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Revealed: MI5 ‘super-spy’ infiltrated UK Nazi ring during WWII
01 Mar 2014
A ‘super-spy’ working for MI5, the domestic arm of British intelligence, secretly controlled a vast network of UK-based Nazi sympathisers during the Second World War by pretending to have Gestapo links, newly-released files reveal
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Navy chief Joshi resigns after new submarine disaster
26 Feb 2014
The chief of the Indian Navy, Admiral D K Joshi, resigned today taking moral responsibility for the third submarine mishap in the last seven months
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Ballistic missiles not on negotiating table: Iran
11 Feb 2014
Iran insists that its missile programme does not have a nuclear dimension as it is not developing atomic weapons
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India’s nuclear sub ‘Arihant’ to be fitted with Agni-V for sea trials soon
08 Feb 2014
The nuclear-tipped missiles are ready for installation and their integration would begin after some of the scheduled sea trials of Arihant are over
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Rafale fighter deal put off as India’s defence budget exhausted
07 Feb 2014
India has postponed finalising the deal to buy 126 Rafale fighter planes until2014 - 15, as the budget for defence procurement for the current year is almost exhausted
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UK expert’s advice ignored in ’84 Golden Temple assault: Hague
04 Feb 2014
The British role in the 1984 Operation Blue Star, ordered by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to flush out Sikh militants from the Golden Temple in Amritsar, was "limited" and "purely advisory", UK's foreign secretary William Hague told the UK parliament on Tuesday
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DRDO develops amphibious tank carrier, unmanned ground vehicles
01 Feb 2014
The amphibious system can serve as a 24-metre long and 3.6-metre wide floating bridge and is capable of ferrying a 42-tonne main battle tank
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India close to $1.65-bin military aircraft deal with Japan
28 Jan 2014
India would become the first country since World War II to buy a military aircraft from Japan, when the $1.65-billion ShinMaywa US-2 amphibian aircraft deal materialises
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India scraps Rs3,600-cr chopper deal with AgustaWestland
01 Jan 2014
The decision to scrap the deal comes more than a year after reports surfaced that two top officials of the company had allegedly paid bribes to bag the contract
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